June 1 - Stocks closed out the holiday-shortened week with overall gains.
*The S&P 500 breaks a seven-year record.
*GDP weakest in four years.
*Jobs market surprisingly strong.
*Wal-Mart eases up on expansion plans.
*Dow Jones & Co. owners to talk to News Corp.
*Tech firms launch new products.
Jeanne Yurman reports from New York.
Apr 9 - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday after oil touched a record $112 a barrel and a warning from United Parcel Service added to profit and economic jitters. The Dow fell 49 points to 12,527. The S&P 500 lost 11 points to 1,354. The Nasdaq shed 26 points to 2,322. Crude oil settled at record of $110.87 a barrel. Conway Gittens reports.
Jan. 10 - U.S. stocks enjoyed their strongest two-day rally of 2008 after reports Bank of America is in serious talks to buy Countrywide Financial. The Dow jumped 117 points to 12,853. The S&P 500 rose 11 points to 1,420. The Nasdaq gained 13 points to 2,488.
Conway Gittens reports from New York.
Sep 30 - What began as a housing problem has mushroomed into what may be the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.In September, the titans topple like dominos, then the Federal Reserve and the Treasury respond with a $700 billion bailout plan. Fred Katayama reports from New York.
Nov 11 - The White House on Tuesday said it was open to considering any proposals from Congress to accelerate loans to the auto industry.President-e lect Barack Obama reportedly raised the issue of additional help for the auto industry -- perhaps an additional $25 billion -- in a meeting with President Bush on Monday. Jon Decker reports.
Nov. 3 - The Dow inched 5 points lower to 9,319. The S&P 500 crept down 2 points to 966. The Nasdaq bucked the trend to rally for the fifth consecutive session, up 5 points to 1,726.
Jan 23 - Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic showed off models of a spaceship it hopes will take spacetravel mainstream. Trips will initially cost about $200,000 and will eventually go down in price. That's far less than the $20 million reported cost of businessman Dennis Tito's trip on a Russian spacecraft in 2001, considered the first space tourist. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Nov. 3 - Pakistan - the first stop for General David Petraeus as the new head of U.S. Central Command. The visit highlights American concern about a country seen as crucial to stability in Afghanistan and to defeating al- Qaeda.
Jan 9 - Nuremberg zoo's last surviving polar bear cub is spending some time away from its mother Vera, after one of the zoo's female polar bears ate her own cub.The German zoo bowed to media and public pressure and decided to hand rear the polar bear cub.
Oct 29 - Virginia is in play in the presidential election for the first time in decades.As fall descends, Virginia voters are asking whether the change in season heralds a change in the political landscape -- a verdict that will come November fourth when the 44th President of the United States is selected.
Oct 22 - Investor sentiment soured further on Wednesday as weak corporate results reinforced growing recession fears.The Dow fell 514 points, or 5.7 percent, to 8.519. The S&P 500 lost 58 points, or 6.1 percent, to 896. The Nasdaq shed 80 points, 4.7 percent, to 1,615.
Crude oil prices dropped $5.43 to $66.75 a barrel.
Conway Gittens reports.
Nov. 12 - Lowered profit forecasts at leading consumer electronics chain Best Buy and worries the credit crunch has spread kept recession worries at the forefront.
